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If you are also using dnsmasq as your DHCP server, you can configure dnsmasq to send a list of DNS servers to the clients. For example, this line in /etc/dnsmasq.conf sends the primary DNS as 10.0.0.1 and Google's Public DNS servers as secondary and tertiary:

Thanks for that! That solved it right away.
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shymegaApr 16 '12 at 20:48

Is it needed to have the 6, in the line? Thanks.
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shymegaApr 17 '12 at 18:47

Yes, the 6 specifies a feature of the DHCP protocol to use. For example, 1 is to specify netmask, 3 is gateway, 6 is DNS servers, 42 is NTP server. Read the comments around the dhcp-option lines in the dnsmasq.conf for some more info on them.
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dobeyApr 18 '12 at 0:24